“Looking back, I may say that the government of the day made a wrong political judgment. Mr Narasimha Rao paid the price for this. The Congress party paid the price for this wrong political judgment. But it was induced by the lies and false promises of BJP.”
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Indian politician 1921–2004Related quotes
To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)
Derived from A Midsummer Night's Dream on p. 269, Aphorisms from Shakespeare (1812), Capel Lofft, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, a book which rewrites in aphoristic form Shakespeare quotations, in this case the exchange between Hermia and Theseus: "I would my father look'd but with my eyes", "Rather your eyes must with his judgment look".
Misattributed
“This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.”
The Rickover Effect (1992)
Context: Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.
“I paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt.”
Song lyrics, Planet Waves (1974), Dirge
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
1960s
“The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit.”
Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 5 “Knight Takes Pawn” (pp. 64-65)
Source: "Price and production policies of large-scale enterprise," 1939, p. 61